Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2024

Students across the United States often focus on specific events and people during history courses. For instance, learning about World War 1, World War 2, and September 11th are essential topics. Additionally, learning about Martin Luther King Jr, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon B. Johnson is crucial due to their impact. However, creating lessons that ensure students have a deep understanding of vital events and people can be challenging.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. But if he wanted to design something more engaging, where the kids are making cutouts or drawing as part of the lesson, well — there’s just not enough time in his 45-minute conference period to design that.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 14, 2024

Another in the “Podcasts with Pictures” series designed to bring to your attention video materials you or your students might find useful. In this instance we have a series of “video lessons” created by The Learning Academy.

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Living Geography

MARCH 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GA Presidents blog. An important announcement from the GA today. Alan Kinder's replacement was announced. The full announcement said: The Geographical Association (GA) is delighted to announce that Steve Brace has been appointed as its new Chief Executive. Steve is already well known to the geography education community having previously been Head of Education and Outdoor Learning at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (RGS (with IBG)).

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Geography Education Policy Teaching Education 75

C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2024

One of the most fruitful aspects of using IDM in a school, PLC, or any community of teachers is the ability to develop a similar language about what we are trying to teach in a classroom. My own social studies department made it a soft goal to implement IDM language (questions, tasks, sources, etc.) a few years ago. Many of the best and challenging conversations I have had with colleagues have utilized this language, particularly when it comes to developing and using compelling questions.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 14, 2024

The post Leading Education and Technology Communities Announce New Partnership to Advance the Edtech Ecosystem appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Education 62

Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2024

Unveiling Climate Change as the Driving Force In a groundbreaking study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , planetary scientists Giovanni Muttoni from the University of Milan and Dennis Kent from Columbia University delve into the intricacies of the Pleistocene migration, proposing climate change as the pivotal factor shaping hominin dispersal out of Africa over a million years ago.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2024

Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes By Margit Tavits , Washington University in St. Louis , Petra Schleiter , University of Oxford , Jonathan Homola , Rice University and Dalston Ward , Eth Zurich Research shows that sexist attitudes are deeply ingrained, with adverse consequences in the socioeconomic and political sphere. We argue that parental leave for fathers—a policy reform that disrupts traditional gender roles and promotes less stereotypical ones—has the power to decrease attitudinal

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Last year, I began reporting on the growing interest in teaching young people about data science amid calls that Algebra II and other higher-level math classes are being taught in outdated ways and need to be modernized.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 14, 2024

A mural on Whiterock Road in Belfast commemorating the Irish famine. Source: Public domain Too often, textbooks present famines as natural phenomena. They are not. As Gaza moves closer toward famine, it is not hard to see its causes. As Josep Borrell, the European Union foreign policy chief said recently : This is a humanitarian crisis, which is not a natural disaster.

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